Bug#268083: exim4: [info] File inclusion section does not explain default directory

[Marc Haber]

tags #268083 upstream
forwarded #268083 http://www.exim.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=75
user exim4 at packages.debian.org
usertags #268083 - old-format-docs close-20060331
thanks

On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 01:11:30AM +0300, Jari Aalto wrote:
> Things that should be cleared:
> 
> 	- What directory is assumed with this statement? I'd have
> 	  expected the current directory the file is being included
> 	  from (e.g inside transport/ dir, it would look into that dir)

Exim takes relative paths relative to whatever current directory exim
was invoked in. This is bad, and I have forwarded this issue upstream.
See http://www.exim.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=75


> 	- Can the include macro expansions?

The docs say that file inclusion happens after macro expansion, so the
.include directive can include macro expansions.

Greetings
Marc

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